Dish Throws Up Hurdle for Sprint

By

Miriam Gottfried

Jan. 9, 2013 5:34 p.m. ET

Dish Network may have Sprint Nextel's number.

The satellite-TV operator has issued a nonbinding proposal to, among other things, purchase Clearwire spectrum and/or a minimum of 25% of its shares for $3.30 each. This is unlikely to allow Dish to snatch the wireless broadband provider away from Sprint. But that may not be Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen's ultimate goal.